MacIver Perspective by Matt Crumb – President Obama announced the final Clean Power Plan format this week that takes aim at coal-fired power plants in an effort to drop carbon emissions levels 32 percent by 2030, based on their 2005 levels. Each state will have to submit a plan tailored specifically to their emissions levels no later than 2018 and start full compliance no later than 2022. Read More Final Clean Power Plan Whacks Wisconsin
PRESS RELEASE – Brett Healy, president of the MacIver Institute, released the following statement after the EPA announced new regulations that would limit carbon emissions and have a detrimental impact on Wisconsin’s economy. Read More MacIver Institute: Finalized EPA Rules Will Cost Wisconsin Economy Thousands of Jobs
The Obama Administration released its final form of the controversial Clean Power Plan on Monday, which will make each state submit plans for cutting its carbon emissions 32 percent by 2030. The original proposal would have required 30 percent emissions reductions and that states submit a plan to comply by September 2016. Full implementation would have been required by the states in 2020. The final plan increases the emissions reduction target but allows for up to a two-year extension for states to submit their plans and start full compliance. Read More EPA’s Changes To Final Clean Power Plan Won’t Help Wisconsin
The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy released a policy brief in conjunction with the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University on Tuesday that shows newly proposed EPA regulations will increase electricity prices by 19 percent and eliminate nearly 21,000 jobs by 2030. Read More STUDY: EPA Regs to Increase WI Electricity Prices 19%, Eliminate 20,995 Jobs by 2030
Gov. Scott Walker, 49 state legislators, and two state agencies submitted letters to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday expressing concern over the harmful effects of its proposed Clean Power Plan. Read More Walker, Legislators and State Officials All Send Letters to EPA Opposing Anti-Coal Plan